This is the strip of code characters that appeared in the Shooting Code Across the Void photo next in this photostream. NB: I had difficulty uploading it, probably due to the aspect ratio (10000 x 300 pixels), it didn't "look like a valid photo". Tried resizing it, and it finally worked if I made it taller (10000 x 1000), but I didn't like the looks. However, when I used the "replace" function from the image page, flickr allowed me to upload my original long photo. Lesson learned: try all available methods until one works!

Many things that get labelled as “fads” might work for an individual teacher (although many things might work better) but they only become fads when divorced from their original meaning and then are spread around and are imposed on other teachers.

Network topology and the ghost of the digg homepage

Science fiction great Ursula K. Le Guin died on Monday at age 88. Le Guin was the subject of this long New Yorker piece from a cou

A reflection on developing a site building upon the ideas of the #IndieWeb to bring together all my disparate pieces around the web in one place. Just when I thought I had enough sites, I decided to create another one. A feed that could be used in a platform like Micro.blog. My intent this time wa...

We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

Messenger Kids exudes wholesomeness and good intentions, just as Google did at the beginning, and as Mark Zuckerberg still does in his pious epistles to his disciples.

I think Manton is right – blogging should be easy, but should still require more thought that reading a headline, clicking like or share and moving on.